Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-05-21

again in the fashion so becoming to 8 certain type of face, ln vogue dozen years ago
 A-New London oyster dealer has in- vented dredge with which star-fish, g the greatest enemies of the oyster. ca:: be taken from bed without disturbing the oysters.
 George Augustus Sala is about to write his life He has known ia little of dy''-sometime great deal of somebody, as for instance Dickens and his autobiography will contain many good stories.
 A Macon, Ga.; correspondent notes that church in that city has secured the service of ''an elegant soprano" "a beautiful alto, "a fine tenor," and "a fine basso." Naturally some fine music is expected from this strong con- bihation.
 Falerian and tincture of opium are used in the manufacture of popular brands of cigarettes. Havana favor ing" so-called. is made from the tonka bean, winch contains deadly poison arc sufficient to kill dog.
 Little Juanita. the tiny daughter of Joaquin Miller, has been creating d sensation at the Grand Hotel, in the Catskills, by her extraordinary recita- tions. She recites like an experienced actress and looks q veritable baby, with curls and short skirts, and has to be lifted on the table to be seen.
 The office of the Secretary of the Navy has recently been decorated with beautiful model of the Japanese twin screw cruiser Naniwa-Kan. which is to
 be duplicated for the American navy. It
 is in perfect working order, and every thing about it is according to scale. 1s
 is perfect ship in miniature.
 Three American horses are to be
 shipped to Rosa Bonheur. One was
 bred on the Sun river in the Rocky
 mountains, another is wild horse
 caught on the head waters of the Nio-
 brara, and the third is mustang from
 the Brazos river, Texas. They are de-
 signed as specimens of horses used on
 our frontier.
 Jane Wycoff. colored woman of
 Wilkes-barre, Pa., is 105 years old, and
 anhesitatingly declares that she never
 was a servant of George Washington
 and never saw him. She was discover
 ed in Pittsburg, and her case was con-
 sidered so remarkable that she was
 immediately furnished a railroad pass
 to her home.
 The captain of Mississippi steamer
 amuses his friends by this statement concerning the great stream: ''I have seen it so low at some places that we
 have had trouble soaring the calves
 away from in front of the boat The whistle was used for that purpose, and
 sometimes we would have to keep her going continually for long time:' Mme Alboni, whose glorioUsly rich and thrilling voice all old opefa-lovers
 recall with va sigh of yearning, now t weighs almoSt 400 pounds, is very lalnes ! but jolly, wears glasses, and has an mr. l mense appetite. She sings for charity , sometimes, and preserves all the beauty i of her remarkable style. though the tones themselves have lost their freshl l sness.
 MT. Frank Stockton is credited by Arlo Bates with sending ponderous door-key to friend just sailing for Europe with this message: He says it
 is the key to one of the very best board ing-housesa in London He is sorry he has forgotten the address; but if you try the doors until you find the one this fits you may be suresthe place is capi- : tai one. , a One of the strangest fights that ever took place in New England waters was !, that which occurred in Ipswich Bay the f other day between Captain Langford Y and a swordfish. First the captain f harpooned the fish and then the fish f harpooned the man through the bottom f of the boat, nearly killing him. The
 swordfish does not ''wear sword for fashion"
 ) English school-board education con
 tinues to yield curious results The
 latest is this: In answer, to the question:
 put by the diocesan inspector, '.De-
 scribe some effects of the proceedings under Queen Mary" the glib answer
 was reeled of: '.Many of the bishops were deprived of their sees." One of the managers, however, cross-examined
 the children on the above answer, and asked the meaning of the state- i fnent After long pause one boy put up his hand and said: Had his eyes put 1; out!'
 For the past two or three years the 5 continent of Europe has been deluged with forged Bank of England notes exe4 l cuted in a style defying detection, even ) by the most experienced. It is evident that the forgers have either access to
 the bank paper or have found means of
 copying it exactly, for the strietest com l parison of the real and forged notes
 fails to show any difference in the water ' mark or quality of the paper; and, in
 fact, high authorities in the Bank of , England say that it is impossible to I detect the difference except by signs
 and numbers known only to them r selves.
 ] There are in Dundee, Scotland, eight
 companies dealing in mortgages and cattle in the Western and Northwest s ern states. In Edinburgh there are
 eleven, and in Glasgow three. The land and cattle companies in the United { Kingdom operating in the United States ! hold in fee simple 2,016,S83 acres, and
 by lease 1,445,7 ,796 acres. Their divi-
 dends in 1883 averaged over per cent, but fell to only 8 little over per cent in 1SSH Tho o.J4cac of thic Joo1i,o opo